Exodus · Bible in Basic English
Exodus 8 Bible in Basic English
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1 And this is what the Lord said to Moses: Go to Pharaoh and say to him, The Lord says, Let my people go so that they may give me worship.
1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh says, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
2 And if you will not let them go, see, I will send frogs into every part of your land:
2 If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs.
3 The Nile will be full of frogs, and they will come up into your house and into your bedrooms and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and into your bread-basins.
3 The river will swarm with frogs, which will go up and come into your house, and into your bedroom, and on your bed, and into the house of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs.
4 The frogs will come up over you and your people and all your servants.
4 The frogs shall come up both on you, and on your people, and on all your servants.”’”
5 And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Let the rod in your hand be stretched out over the streams and the waterways and the pools, causing frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.
5 Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.’”
6 And when Aaron put out his hand over the waters of Egypt, the frogs came up and all the land of Egypt was covered with them.
6 Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
7 And the wonder-workers did the same with their secret arts, making frogs come up over the land of Egypt.
7 The magicians did the same thing with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.
8 Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Make prayer to the Lord that he will take away these frogs from me and my people; and I will let the people go and make their offering to the Lord.
8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, “Entreat Yahweh, that he take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to Yahweh.”
9 And Moses said, I will let you have the honour of saying when I am to make prayer for you and your servants and your people, that the frogs may be sent away from you and your houses, and be only in the Nile.
9 Moses said to Pharaoh, “I give you the honor of setting the time that I should pray for you, and for your servants, and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, and remain in the river only.”
10 And he said, By tomorrow. And he said, Let it be as you say: so that you may see that there is no other like the Lord our God.
10 Pharaoh said, “Tomorrow.” Moses said, “Let it be according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like Yahweh our God.
11 And the frogs will be gone from you and from your houses and from your servants and from your people and will be only in the Nile.
11 The frogs shall depart from you, and from your houses, and from your servants, and from your people. They shall remain in the river only.”
12 Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh; and Moses made prayer to the Lord about the frogs which he had sent on Pharaoh.
12 Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to Yahweh concerning the frogs which he had brought on Pharaoh.
13 And the Lord did as Moses said; and there was an end of all the frogs in the houses and in the open spaces and in the fields.
13 Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields.
14 And they put them together in masses, and a bad smell went up from the land.
14 They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was peace for a time, he made his heart hard and did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.
15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
16 And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Let your rod be stretched out over the dust of the earth so that it may become insects through all the land of Egypt.
16 Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.’”
17 And they did so; and Aaron, stretching out the rod in his hand, gave a touch to the dust of the earth, and insects came on man and on beast; all the dust of the earth was changed into insects through all the land of Egypt.
17 They did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and there were lice on man, and on animal; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
18 And the wonder-workers with their secret arts, attempting to make insects, were unable to do so: and there were insects on man and on beast.
18 The magicians tried with their enchantments to produce lice, but they couldn’t. There were lice on man, and on animal.
19 Then the wonder-workers said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: but Pharaoh's heart was hard, and he did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.
19 Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is God’s finger;” but Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
20 And the Lord said to Moses, Get up early in the morning and take your place before Pharaoh when he comes out to the water; and say to him, This is what the Lord says: Let my people go to give me worship.
20 Yahweh said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he comes out to the water; and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh says, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
21 For if you do not let my people go, see, I will send clouds of flies on you and on your servants and on your people and into their houses; and the houses of the Egyptians and the land where they are will be full of flies.
21 Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you, and on your servants, and on your people, and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground they are on.
22 And at that time I will make a division between your land and the land of Goshen where my people are, and no flies will be there; so that you may see that I am the Lord over all the earth.
22 I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, to the end you may know that I am Yahweh on the earth.
23 And I will put a division between my people and your people; tomorrow this sign will be seen.
23 I will put a division between my people and your people. This sign shall happen by tomorrow.”’”
24 And the Lord did so; and great clouds of flies came into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants' houses, and all the land of Egypt was made waste because of the flies.
24 Yahweh did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses. In all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason of the swarms of flies.
25 And Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Go and make your offering to your God here in the land.
25 Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God in the land!”
26 And Moses said, It is not right to do so; for we make our offerings of that to which the Egyptians give worship; and if we do so before their eyes, certainly we will be stoned.
26 Moses said, “It isn’t appropriate to do so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Yahweh our God. Behold, if we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, won’t they stone us?
27 But we will go three days' journey into the waste land and make an offering to the Lord our God as he may give us orders.
27 We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he shall command us.”
28 Then Pharaoh said, I will let you go to make an offering to the Lord your God in the waste land; but do not go very far away, and make prayer for me.
28 Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far away. Pray for me.”
29 And Moses said, When I go out from you I will make prayer to the Lord that the cloud of flies may go away from Pharaoh and from his people and from his servants tomorrow: only let Pharaoh no longer by deceit keep back the people from making their offering to the Lord.
29 Moses said, “Behold, I am going out from you. I will pray to Yahweh that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only don’t let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to Yahweh.”
30 Then Moses went out from Pharaoh and made prayer to the Lord.
30 Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh.
31 And the Lord did as Moses said, and took away the cloud of flies from Pharaoh and from his servants and from his people; not one was to be seen.
31 Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. There remained not one.
32 But again Pharaoh made his heart hard and did not let the people go.
32 Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn’t let the people go.
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People
Aaron
Moses' brother and spokesman, Israel's first high priest.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 4–40; Leviticus 8–10
Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Cross references (30)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Exodus 3:18; Exodus 3:12; Exodus 5:1; Jeremiah 1:17–19; Ezekiel 2:6–7
- 2 Exodus 7:14; Psalm 78:45; Exodus 9:2; Revelation 16:13–14; Psalm 105:30
- 3 Psalm 105:30; Exodus 12:34
- 4 Isaiah 19:11; Psalm 107:40; Isaiah 23:9; Acts 12:22–23; Daniel 4:37
- 5 Exodus 7:19
- 6 Psalm 105:30; Psalm 78:45; Leviticus 11:12; Revelation 16:13
- 7 Exodus 7:11; Exodus 7:22; 2 Timothy 3:8; Deuteronomy 13:1–3; Matthew 24:24
- 8 Exodus 10:17; Exodus 9:28; Exodus 8:25–28; Numbers 21:7; Exodus 12:31–32
- 9 Judges 7:2; 1 Kings 18:25; Isaiah 10:15
- 10 Psalm 86:8; 2 Samuel 7:22; Isaiah 46:9; 1 Chronicles 17:20; Deuteronomy 33:26
- 11 Exodus 8:3; Exodus 8:9
- 12 James 5:16–18; Exodus 10:18; 1 Samuel 12:23; Exodus 8:30; Exodus 9:33
- 13 Deuteronomy 34:10–12
- 14 Exodus 7:21; Isaiah 34:2; Exodus 8:24; Joel 2:20; Ezekiel 39:11
- 15 Ecclesiastes 8:11; Isaiah 26:10; Hebrews 3:15; Exodus 7:4; Hebrews 3:8
- 16 Exodus 8:5; Exodus 8:17
- 17 Psalm 105:31; Isaiah 23:9; Acts 12:23
- 18 Exodus 7:11; Exodus 9:11; Daniel 5:8; Daniel 4:7; Luke 10:18
- 19 Luke 11:20; Psalm 8:3; Matthew 12:28; Exodus 7:5; Acts 4:16
- 20 Exodus 7:15; Exodus 9:13; Exodus 3:18; Exodus 8:1
- 21 Psalm 78:45; Isaiah 7:18; Psalm 105:31
- 22 Exodus 9:4; Malachi 3:18; Exodus 10:23; Exodus 9:6; Ezekiel 30:19
- 24 Psalm 78:45; Psalm 105:31; Exodus 8:21
- 25 Exodus 8:8; Exodus 9:27; Exodus 10:16; Exodus 12:31; Revelation 3:9
- 26 Genesis 43:32; Genesis 46:34; Isaiah 44:19; Exodus 3:18; 1 Kings 11:5–7
- 27 Exodus 3:18; Exodus 3:12; Exodus 5:1; Exodus 10:26; Exodus 34:11
- 28 Exodus 8:8; Exodus 9:28; 1 Kings 13:6; Acts 8:24; Exodus 10:17
- 29 Exodus 8:15; Jeremiah 42:20–21; Exodus 8:8; Galatians 6:7; Acts 5:3–4
- 30 Exodus 8:12; James 5:16; Exodus 9:33
- 32 Exodus 8:15; Exodus 4:21; Romans 2:5; Isaiah 63:17; Acts 28:26–27
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… us; we understand consistently with this, that, in this place, the books of both Testaments are called "the heavens." Now it is said too of Moses himself, by the magicians of king Pharaoh, when they were conquered by him, "This is the finger of God." And what is written, "The heavens shall be rolled up as a book." Although it …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
… Egyptians, shall we dare to say that the water also was turned into blood by means of those same angels, and that frogs were created by means of the same, the like whereunto even the magicians of Pharaoh were able to make by their enchantments; so as that evil angels stood on both sides, on the one side afflicting them, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
For whence was it that the magicians of Pharaoh could by no means make lice? Was it not because even these same evil angels were not suffered to do this?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)